Has anyone ever taken or currently taking a Finite math class? I'm having trouble getting the very first section. I can't imagine how much worse this is going to get. I go to a community college called Vincennes University and this class is straight out from Indiana University, same text book and everything. Just wondering if anyone has taken it and would be able to help if I have a question or two...

 

That is a tough problem to even attempt over the internet. The advice I can offer
you, is do not try to understand it. Do what the book says you are to do. In time
you will start to understand.

 

I've taken my share of math classes, up through calculus 4 (differential equations), can you post a specific problem you're having trouble with?

- NCSU

 

ive taken up to calc 3, differential equations, linear algebra, and numerical methods. post a question and ill see if i can help, never heard of finite math, but different areas call classes different things

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i suggest trying as hard as you want to and if you cant figure it out drop the class, if your having problems in the beginning it will just get worse. so really try to pay attention in class and if that doens help drop it while you can get your money back

 

is that the class where you have to prove 2+2?

 

I had this class my first year in college. Studied for 13 hours for the first test. The test was in front of me, looked it over, got up and handed it back to the teacher telling her "I have no idea what any of this is!" and droped the class, got a F in the class for not droping out sooner. I cannot do way out math, that is why I do not work for NASA.

 

2+2=x no thats algebra

Dude I wanna drop every class i have this semester! ha but i can't really drop it because my advisor said It looks good when you go to transfer and I'm thinking of transfering after next year and I need a business type math class.

I'll post a problem, but Its kinda hard because the keyboard doesn't have some on the symbols but I'll try.

Straight from the book:

The Sets R,S, and T are subsets of a universal set U. Which of the following always holds?
a. R (with the symbol upside down U which means intersection I'll us ^ for that symbol) S (symbol that looks kinda like a C, I'll use < for that symbol)
b. T< T(0 with a slash thru it meaning empty set)
c. R (symbol that looks like U meaning Union, going to use U for symbol) (S ^ T) < R ^ (S U T)
d. R' U S' = (R U S)'

okay so the problems would look like this without the () inbetween letters.
a. R ^ S < R
b. T < T ^ 0 with a slash
c. R U (S ^ T) < R ^ (S U T)
d. R' U S' = (R U S)'


normally i'd probably go to the math lab and get help on it but it won't be open for services untill next week so I'm going to try and get it on my own for now. I've been paying attention in class but it seems like we didn't even go over anything like this in class..

 

I took math through college up to CalcII. Now, I just use my HP 12C for everything.....

 

To show you how bad I am in math, I took two comouter science classes to get my teaching license! (Back then they counted as math classes.)

TSC

 

I took a matrices class and my HP 48S was a savior!



I was only 1 class away from a math minor. Major was civil engineering.

 

It's finite math.
There is an end to it.

 

It's actually a pretty easy class. I took it in college as an elective, I think we called it applied algebra or something like that.

Basically, a lot of what was taught in that class was based off of probability theory.

To answer that question I'd really need to see the actual symbols and refresh my memory as to their characteristics. Once you wrap your head about the relationships and just think about it, you'll make sense of it. It's a pretty logical class. More intuitive than calculus in my opinion. I was an electrical engineering major with a math minor because math was fun after awhile...

 

that looks just like the stuff we did in my Logic class. which is basically a math class even though its considered philosophy. good luck with that stuff. i dont remember anything lol

 

Ahh.... good ole DeMorgan's Law and the laws of multiplicity...

 

Yep DeMorgan's law! See i absolutly hate logic type math. Proofs, Unions, etc I hate that stuff.